Did you know it is now possible for the recreational fisherman to rape the ocean using commercial fishing-style technology? Hooray! Introducing longline Kitefishing--a way for the recreational fisherman to play like the big boys. Up to 25 hooks are strung out on a line 2000 meters long--that is well over a mile! The best part? The whole rig is hooked up to a kite so you can actually fish from shore and get the baited hooks out into the deeper water. Now poor fishermen can fish like rich assholes with boats!

You can tell the people that sell Kitefishing rigs are conservation-minded by the language they use on their website:

While great white shark attacks on kitefishing gear are thought to be rare, there is no real way of knowing for sure what type of shark broke a particular trace.

In this case the gut yeilded several gurnard with hooks still in them and obviously taken from Colins' line. In the picture above some of the other victims of the great white shark attack can be seen hanging from it's mouth

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Even though they can't spell, they know enough about New Zealand environmental regulations to imply that they Great White they caught was not a specifically targeted species. In New Zealand while it is illegal to fish for Great Whites because they are threatened it is okay if you catch them but not on purpose. This makes the longline fishing even more offensive--you really don't know what you are going to get on your hook. And how do you like how the assholes actually say that their bait was a "victim" of the Great White "attack?" I can go on and on about the linguistic implications of language choices but why bother when a picture says it all:

Thanks to the Kiwi Mafia for another story lead,

--Sharky

technorati tags: Sharks, kitefishing, longline, Shark Fishing, New Zealand, Endangered Species, Linguistics, Great Whites

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